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Any non-military health care provider who has patients empaneled to himself or herself and serves as the manager for clinical care of those patients. This includes physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants practicing in ...
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Applied to medical personnel, this includes all of the clinical and nonclinical individual and team requirements necessary to accomplish the deployed mission.
A Service member, civilian employee, or contracted individual, whose primary duty involves the delivery or direct support of the delivery of medical or dental care.
The provision of integrated, accessible health care services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs, developing a sustained partnership with patients, and practicing in the context of ...
Persons authorized to receive care in accordance with Chapter 55 of Title 10, United States Code, who are not currently a member of the Military Services (any component). This includes family members of active duty military personnel, ...
Medical specialties identified in the DoD Personnel Management Plan for Trauma-Related and Other Wartime Medical Specialties, developed in response to Section 708(d) of Public Law 114-328. These include emergency medical services and pre ...
All DoD medical and dental programs, personnel, facilities, and other assets operating pursuant to Chapter 55 of Title 10, United States Code, by which the DoD provides: Health care services and support to the Military Services during ...
Clinical practice that is relevant to a provider or provider team’s ability to perform their assigned deployed role. This would include MTF-based practice as well as clinical experience gained through partnerships. Also ...
Relocated from a person’s regular, fixed duty location to a temporary duty location that is in support of a DoD-supported operation.
The total number of authorized military and civilian personnel positions identified on the manning document for an MTF. For military positions, authorized means the Secretary of the appropriate Military Department has agreed to commit an ...
Six weeks or fewer.
A subset of questions from the Data Quality Management Control (DQMC) Review List that the MTF commander or director approves and submits to the DHA DQMC Program Manager. The DQMC Workgroup updates this statement annually.
A set of questions to assist MTFs in identifying and correcting financial and clinical workload data problems. The DQMC Workgroup updates this list of questions annually, concurrently with the Commander’s DQ Statement.
The commander or director of an MTF established for the purpose of furnishing medical or dental care to eligible individuals.
An individual who renders assistance to an eligible Service member to support ADL and specific services essential to the safe management of the Service member’s condition. Also referred to as a home health aide.
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